The political elite, which loathes the electorate it claims to represent, has done its best to laugh off David Davis 'decision to resign and fight a bye-election on the issue of our essential freedoms and to present him as, well, not to put too fine a point on it, barking mad.

A fat slug called Watson, a very minor member of the present Payola Government, eructated on SKY that the citizens of Haltemprice and Howden will not be best pleased to be put to the expense of a bye-election.

Given that same Stasi State's seeming utter indifference to keeping that information secure and the uses (or, rather, potential misuses) to which that information might be put, we can now see that David Davis 'decision to fight a bye-election was entirely justified.

A Fellow of All Souls at the tender age of 24, he won a famous bye-election at Oxford in 1938 and remained in front line politics until he was eighty, having been, in 1963, a serious contender for his party's leadership.

That the price of a bye-election (as opposed to its value) was uppermost in this coprophilous gastropod tells you all you need to know about the mindset of your average member of The Ovine & The Bovine.

Scotland in particular, from whence the Brown Junta draws the support of some 39 MPs (though that may be about spectacularly to diminish by one if Labour's vote in Glasgow East, its third safest seat in the land, were to implode in the forthcoming bye-election) many of whom are routinely rewarded with government jobs.

The slight problem with that scenario is that Smuggo and his ghastly wife have retired to their country estate in Buckinghamshire and he would have to win a bye-election to get back into Parliament, something which might prove tricky, to say the least in the present climate.